2003 was the year with Gentoo written all over it in the Linux universe. Last year was Ubuntu's & MEPIS'. I believe that Arch Linux's year is the current one. Read more for a comparison of Arch to existing distributions, and why we think it rocks and where we think it still requires some work.

arch is really a great distro,and it became even better since 0.6.the installation is just a thought/arch_base for me about 5 mins on an old 850Mhz Athlon/it works great,needs a bit more time to set up then slack,but it just works good.

but,anyway i just don't understand why this arguing comes up here,LINUX is great,doesn't matter if it's debian or slack.it just the kind of taste.i like slack,can't stand debian,but i don't think that's a bad distro just because i don't like it.It's great that we have so many choices,arch is one of them,seems to be good,i can't see this as a bad point.